| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.73.1.1 | Drum and colours. Enter Bertram, Parolles, and the | Drumme and Colours. Enter Count Rossillion, Parrolles, and the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.1.2 | Colours, with Captains, and Soldiers, as before the city | Colours, with Captaines and Souldiers, as before the City |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.71.1 | Enter Coriolanus, marching with drum and colours; | Enter Coriolanus marching with Drumme, and Colours. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.18 | lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully | lamentable diuorce vnder her colours, are wonderfully |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.356.2 | train of drum, colours, and attendants | Drumme, Colours, and Attendants. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.26 | That wear those colours on them. What art thou, | That weare those colours on them. What art thou |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.164 | himself tonight in his true colours, and not ourselves | himselfe to night, in his true colours, and not our selues |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.91 | Fear no colours. Go with me to dinner. Come, | Feare no colours, go with me to dinner: Come |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.17 | Suits not in native colours with the truth; | Sutes not in natiue colours with the truth: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.116 | With patches, colours, and with forms, being fetched | With patches, colours, and with formes being fetcht |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.85.1 | Drum and colours. Enter the King and his poor | Drum and Colours. Enter the King and his poore |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.1 | Advance our waving colours on the walls; | Aduance our wauing Colours on the Walls, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.34 | I love no colours; and, without all colour | I loue no Colours: and without all colour |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.105 | And know us by these colours for thy foes, | And know vs by these Colours for thy Foes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.31 | There goes the Talbot with his colours spread, | There goes the Talbot, with his Colours spred, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.29 | Disgracing of these colours that I wear | Disgracing of these Colours that I weare, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.56 | Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight! | Prosper our Colours in this dangerous fight. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.128 | Then call our captains and our colours forth! | Then call our Captaines and our Colours forth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.127 | name the several colours we do wear. Sight may distinguish | name the seuerall Colours we doe weare. / Sight may distinguish |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.128 | of colours; but suddenly to nominate them all, it | of Colours: / But suddenly to nominate them all, / It |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.97 | Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours | Burnes with reuenging fire, whose hopefull colours |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.1.2 | colours | Colours. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.1.2 | and soldiers with drum and colours | and Soldiers, with Drum & Colours. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.91 | And slew your fathers, and with colours spread | And slew your Fathers, and with Colours spread |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.127 | Ay, and their colours, often borne in France, | I, and their Colours often borne in France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.251 | The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours | The Northerne Lords, that haue forsworne thy Colours, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.173 | Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! | Sound Trumpets, let our bloody Colours waue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.98 | The fatal colours of our striving houses; | The fatall Colours of our striuing Houses: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.191 | I can add colours to the chameleon, | I can adde Colours to the Camelion, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.58.1 | Enter Oxford, with drum and colours | Enter Oxford, with Drumme and Colours. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.58 | O, cheerful colours! See where Oxford comes! | Oh chearefull Colours, see where Oxford comes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.67 | Enter Montague, with drum and colours | Enter Mountague, with Drumme and Colours. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.72 | Enter Somerset, with drum and colours | Enter Somerset, with Drumme and Colours. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.76.1 | Enter George, with drum and colours | Enter Clarence, with Drumme and Colours. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.113 | Until my colours be displayed in France. | Vntill my collours be displaide in Fraunce: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.295 | To bear my colours in this field of love. | To beare my collours in this feild of loue. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.100 | Let's with our colours sweet the air of France. | Lets with our coullours sweete the Aire of Fraunce. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.28 | Quartered in colours, seeming sundry fruits, | Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.72 | He straight will fold his bloody colours up, | He straight will fold his bloody collours vp, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.84 | Tell him my colours are as red as his, | Tell him my colours are as red as his, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.2 | Thy bloody ensigns are my captive colours; | Thy bloudie Ensignes are my captiue colours, |
| King John | KJ II.i.8 | To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf, | To spread his colours boy, in thy behalfe, |
| King John | KJ II.i.319 | Our colours do return in those same hands | Our colours do returne in those same hands |
| King John | KJ II.i.389 | And part your mingled colours once again; | And part your mingled colours once againe, |
| King John | KJ V.i.72 | Mocking the air with colours idly spread, | Mocking the ayre with colours idlely spred, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.32 | And follow unacquainted colours here? | And follow vnacquainted colours heere: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.73 | Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up, | Therefore thy threatning Colours now winde vp, |
| King John | KJ V.v.7 | And wound our tottering colours clearly up, | And woon'd our tott'ring colours clearly vp, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.1.1 | Enter, with drum and colours, Cordelia, Doctor, and | Enter with Drum and Colours, Cordelia, Gentlemen, and |
| King Lear | KL V.i.1.1 | Enter, with drum and colours, Edmund, Regan, | Enter with Drumme and Colours, Edmund, Regan. |
| King Lear | KL V.i.18.1 | Enter, with drum and colours, Albany, Gonerill, and | Enter with Drum and Colours, Albany, Gonerill, |
| King Lear | KL V.ii.1.1 | Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours, Lear, | Alarum within. Enter with Drumme and Colours, Lear, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.1.1 | Enter in conquest with drum and colours Edmund; | Enter in conquest with Drum and Colours, Edmund, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.89 | such colours. | such colours. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.185 | And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! | And weare his colours like a Tumblers hoope. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.148 | colourable colours. But to return to the verses: did | colourable colours. But to returne to the Verses, Did |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.269 | For fear their colours should be washed away. | For feare their colours should be washt away. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.112 | Steeped in the colours of their trade, their daggers | Steep'd in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.1.1 | Drum and colours. Enter Menteth, Cathness, Angus, | Drum and Colours. Enter Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.1.1 | Drum and colours. Enter Malcolm, Seyward, Macduff, | Drum and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.1.2 | colours | Drum and Colours |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.1.1 | Drum and colours. Enter Malcolm, Seyward, Macduff, | Drumme and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.73.3 | Retreat and flourish. Enter with drum and colours | Retreat, and Flourish. Enter with Drumme and Colours, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.79 | I must advance the colours of my love | I must aduance the colours of my loue, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.106 | was beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow; | was beaten my selfe into all the colours of the Rainebow: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.1.1 | Drums; flourish and colours. Enter King Richard, | Drums: Flourish, and Colours. Enter Richard, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.1.1 | Enter with drum and colours Bolingbroke, York, | Enter with Drum and Colours, Bullingbrooke, Yorke, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.100 | Under whose colours he had fought so long. | Vnder whose Colours he had fought so long. |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.1.2 | Walter Herbert, and others, with drum and colours | and others, with drum and colours. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.35 | Unless I have mista'en his colours much, | Vnlesse I haue mistane his Colours much, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.143 | With colours fairer painted their foul ends. | With colours fairer, painted their foule ends. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.1.4 | with drums and colours | with Drum & Colours. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.5 | world needs to fear no colours. | world, needs to feare no colours. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.9 | saying was born, of ‘ I fear no colours.’ | saying was borne, of I feare no colours. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.204 | We'll see how near art can come near their colours. | Weele see how neere Art can come neere their colours; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.85 | Thousand fresh water flowers of several colours, | Thousand fresh water flowers of severall cullors. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.105 | The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours | The ordering of the Mind too, 'mongst all Colours |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.206 | He hath ribbons of all the colours i'th' rainbow; | Hee hath Ribbons of all the colours i'th Raine-bow; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.47 | The statue is but newly fixed, the colour's | The Statue is but newly fix'd; the Colour's |